NASA is trying to determine if two bits of material sticking up from the shuttle Discovery’s thermal tiles present an unacceptable risk of overheating when the shuttle returns to Earth, the flight director said just Continue reading “NASA: Discovery crew may have to repair shuttle”.
Looks like the Pentium M is by far one of the most under rated processors every produced by Intel. Intel now confirms that a new Xeon chip that is based off the Pentium M family Continue reading “Intel to borrow from laptops for server chips”.
Motherboard makers are facing component shortages that may threaten their business during the high season in the second half of the year, industry sources said. Entry-level core-logic chipsets have long been in serious shortage, and Continue reading “Mobo makers facing component shortages”.
Intel has begun its transition to dual-core server hardware by handing out a few dual-core machines. The programs goal is to seed servers based on its dual-core Xeon DP Bensly chip and Xeon MP Paxville Continue reading “Intel Trickles Out Dual-Core Servers”.
Iwill introduced its DK88 workstation and server motherboard based on the AMD Opteron platform and supporting up to 64GB of memory. The Iwill DK88 is expected to hit the market in the middle of August, Continue reading “Iwill’s dual AMD Opteron board will support 64GB of memory!!”.
Starting next week Mushkin Memory will begin shipping all their performance memory modules with a newly designed heat spreader. The new heat spreader provides a 58% increase in surface area and also allows for increased airflow to quickly remove heat. Not to mention that it does look pretty nifty!
Retail sales of U.S. video games hardware, software and accessories rose 21 percent in the first six months of the year, as the popularity of handheld devices offset a decline in aging game consoles, a Continue reading “Handhelds fuel 21 pct rise in U.S. video game sales”.
So it begins… A woman upset that she bought the video game “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” for her 14-year-old grandson without knowing it contained hidden, sexually explicit scenes sued the manufacturer Wednesday on behalf Continue reading “Woman sues Rockstar over Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas”.
Declining margins for NOR flash production has pushed Intel to readjust its marketing strategy as a multi-chip packed memory supplier in the Asia handset markets. The Intel Marketing deparment has to love all these changes. Continue reading “Intel readjusts NOR flash marketing strategy”.
This morning ATI announced broad Catalyst graphics driver support for the beta 1 release of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. For full details, please see the official release in our forums. Included with Microsoft?s Continue reading “ATI Beta 1 Drivers Support Microsoft Windows Vista”.
Microsoft is taking another step to crack down on software piracy this week. As part of Microsoft’s efforts to stop software piracy, users must now install counterfeit detection software on their PCs. Start the clocks Continue reading “Microsoft’s new efforts to stop software piracy”.
Discovery roared into space this morning, carrying seven astronauts on the first shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster. The shuttle blasted off on time at 10:39 a.m. ET, following days of troubleshooting to fix Continue reading “Discovery Lifts Off Safely”.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will lower prices of its Socket-754 Sempron CPUs in early August, as it has already officially phased out its K7 line of processors this quarter, according to KJ Chou, general manager Continue reading “AMD’s K7 procrssor is officially phased out”.
Intel Taiwan announced yesterday that it has reached a strategic alliance with Soft-World International, a leading producer of game software and on-line games in Taiwan, for providing efficient graphics solutions for online games using the Continue reading “Intel to sponsor online game provider”.
Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 73 times faster than the world’s fastest supercomputer – Blue Gene. Coming in just under Continue reading “Japan to build world’s fastest supercomputer”.
